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Tribal domains and imperial entanglements
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Chapter Four sees a changing India and new imperial mentalities reach the door of the convent in India by 1884. Mother Gonzaga Joynt was the new Provincial Superior of Loreto Calcutta. Grim child-rescue mentalities – children forcibly taken from their parents in Calcutta’s slums – were part of an empire-wide strategy for those in chronic poverty. For the government, this was a eugenically inspired project, but for the Roman Catholic church it was an opportunity to create more Roman Catholic converts. With this accidental synergy between government and church in view, the chapter explores Loreto’s complicity with the Jesuits in setting up a new convent at Asansol. The chapter then explores the creation of a second convent at Ranchi (again following the Jesuits) with a completely different micro agenda. At Ranchi, a wedge was driven between tribal Indians and their Hindu exploiters to create a new Christian enclave – one that would then give rise to the Daughters of St Anne, a sub-order of Indian Loreto sisters.

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